MAKE and program your very own GameBoy!

Educational workshop in which you’ll make your very own Gameboy-like game console. At the end of the workshop every attendee goes home with a finished device – a functional game console he/she has assembled and programmed himself/herself.

In this workshop attendees will (in a fun and interesting way) learn:
-how to solder
-what are the basic electronics components and how to use them
-how electronic components are connected
-microcontrollers and digital electronics basics
-basic microcontroller programming (C/C++)HOW?

In the process of assembling the device, the workshop attendee will go through a series of lectures about digital electronics. At the end of the workshop the attendee has a usable, fully working device he has assembled on his own – a MAKERbuino game console. The game console is a sort of proof and shows what the attendee has learned on the workshop and what skills he had acquired.

The gaming device that is being assembled on the workshop is actually an educational tool disguised in a shape of a GameBoy-like game console. After the workshop, the device can be further expanded with various (Arduino compatible) adon modules or/and used as a microcontroller development and experimenting platform. Tutorials, lectures, support and code examples for further development and learning are available online for free (www.makerbuino.com, www.gamebuino.com/forum)

MAKERbuino is a Croatian product developed by Albert Gajšak, an 18 year-old student from Croatia. If you attend the workshop, you’ll also support Albert’s project.

-WORKSHOP REQUIREMENTS:

Age 14+ (younger attendees are allowed with the requirement of previous and/or programming experience)